A Raytheon Technologies business unit will develop a sea-based counter-hypersonic weapon system under a $20.9 million other transaction agreement from the Missile Defense Agency. Raytheon Missiles & Defense will aim to demonstrate the Glide Phase Interceptor prototype‘s ability to defend against missile threats that move at least five times the speed of sound, the company […] More

A sensor satellite technology Northrop Grumman is developing for the Missile Defense Agency completed a key design assessment phase. The critical design review of the company’s prototype Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor offered a technical approach for how the system will work to track adversarial missile launches from ground, naval or aerial platforms, Northrop […] More

The Missile Defense Agency seeks market information focused on data strategy and software development and in support of its plans to recompete a contract for data center services. MDA said Thursday in a SAM.gov notice it wants to virtually conduct one-on-one presentations with defense companies interested in servicing the Missile Defense Data Center. The agency […] More

Lockheed Martin has passed the systems requirement review for a part of a new layered missile defense architecture the company is working on with the Missile Defense Agency to detect, contain and destroy ballistic missile threats. The company said Tuesday its industry team used advanced digital engineering, model-based engineering tools and interconnectivity for a modernized […] More

Boeing and the Missile Defense Agency have flight tested an advanced interceptor capability for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system intended to provide operators with real-time options between two-stage and three-stage approaches to defeating ballistic missile threats. The defense company said Sunday it upgraded the digital system modeling software to develop the new capability and then […] More

The Missile Defense Agency is looking for potential sources of concepts to support the planned command and control, battle management and communications platform for enterprise-wide defense network communications.

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MSBAI has received a Phase 2 contract under the U.S. Air Force's Small Business Innovation Research initiative to repurpose a cognitive artificial intelligence assistant for the service branch and the Missile Defense Agency to run hypersonic weapon trajectory simulation software from Science Applications International Corp.

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The Missile Defense Agency intends to award Lockheed Martin's missiles and fire control business a sole-source contract to carry out design technical assistance and integration work for a ballistic missile interceptor to meet a foreign military sales requirement from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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A variant of Raytheon Technologies' Standard Missile-3 system took down an intercontinental ballistic missile during a flight test demonstration led by the Missile Defense Agency, marking the first time such technology intercepted a target outside Earth's atmosphere.

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Artificial intelligence-based technology developer Arcarithm has secured a contract from the Missile Defense Agency to update data mining and management tools designed for digital simulation of missile defense systems.

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The Canadian space agency has indicated its intent to award MDA Inc. a contract to build a robotic system that will serve as Canada's contribution Artemis, NASA's mission to put astronauts on the moon by 2024. Brampton, Ontario-based MDA will work to develop robotic and small dexterous arms and special tools to support heavy-duty tasks on a lunar Gateway outpost, CSA said Friday.

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Woodbridge, Va.-based consulting firm Kepler Research has won a potential five-year, $73.1M contract to advise and assist the Missile Defense Agency regarding compliance, contracting, price and cost and operational matters.

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